Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Discipline and Milk. Bishopshalt's curriculum is much like that of a good U.S. high school. All children must learn French, may add either German or Latin if their teachers think them good linguists. Art is required. So are cooking and sewing for girls, wood and metal work for boys...
...School Tie. "Public schools"-for boys-number some 180, of which only 33 are really of "old-school tie" standing. They are wholly supported by fees (?120 to ?250 a year) and endowments. Their curriculum is now very like that of Britain's state schools. The "public" schools' few scholarships are worth only ?40 to ?100, so that fees are heavy even for scholarship winners. The "public" schools are thus virtually closed to all but children of well-to-do parents...
...undergraduates are concerned, the most important contributions are new courses of expanded instruction in such fields as Japanese, Russian, psychology, camouflage, mathematics, chemistry, physics, engineering, and navigation. Coupled with the Summer School and accelerated program, this new curriculum is designed to turn out future officers and technicians as fast as possible...
Under Fire. Together Saffarrans and Lear worked out a curriculum that broke with tradition. Its text was the first-hand experience of men who had met the Japs. And the curriculum was crammed with such subjects as how to finish a tough, bayoneting, backbreaking, eye-gouging fight; how to make the maximum use of natural cover in the battlefield; how to advance using cover in the face of gunfire. In Ben Lear's school the gunfire is real. The soldier who forgets his lesson can well be hurt or killed...
...active duty for some time. Complete training, including chemical warfare, is being given the officers. Today Peter T. Garden, assistant director of the Red Cross Military and Naval Welfare Service for the New England area, will discuss "Services to the Armed Forces" as a part of the varied curriculum...